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Sea turtle   Listen
noun
Sea turtle  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
Any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas.
(b)
The sea pigeon, or guillemot.






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"Sea turtle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Domingo of our day—and separated from it only by a narrow channel of some five or six miles in width, lies a queer little hunch of an island, known, because of a distant resemblance to that animal, as the Tortuga de Mar, or sea turtle. It is not more than twenty miles in length by perhaps seven or eight in breadth; it is only a little spot of land, and as you look at it upon the map a pin's head would almost cover it; yet from that spot, as from a center ...
— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard Pyle



Words linked to "Sea turtle" :   ridley, turtle, loggerhead, hawksbill turtle, leathery turtle, leatherback, hawkbill, tortoiseshell turtle, hawksbill, Eretmochelys imbricata



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